Boogat

Boogat
Birth name Daniel Russo Garrido
Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres Latin, urban, electronic
Years active 2004 (2004)–present
Labels High Life Music
Website www.boogat.com

Boogat is the stage name of Daniel Russo Garrido, a Canadian musician from Montreal, Quebec.[1] Blending hip hop with Latin music styles such as cumbia and reggaeton, he won the Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year for his album Neo-Reconquista at the Juno Awards of 2016.[2]

Of Paraguayan and Mexican descent,[3] he was born in Montreal to immigrant parents who met as international students at Université Laval[4] and raised in the Verdun borough of the city.[5]

Performing initially in French, he released his debut album Triste et belles histoires in 2004.[1] He began rapping in Spanish after collaborating with the salsa group Roberto Lopez Project, and learning there was more of an audience for Spanish-language music in Quebec than he had realized.[5] He released his first Spanish-language EP Mala Fama in 2009, and his first full-length Spanish album El Dorado Sunset in 2011.[5] The album won a Prix Félix for Best World Music Album in 2013.[6]

Neo-Reconquista, which includes a collaboration with Pierre Kwenders, was released in 2015.[7]

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